Dr. Michael Marshall
Biography
Michael is broadly interested in the interaction of land surface processes with the atmosphere and how this interaction impacts rural society. After receiving his B.S. in physics from UCSD, he served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Tanzania. He received a Fulbright Fellowship after earning his M.A. in Environmental Science and Policy at Clark University to evaluate the socioeconomic impacts of climate change on the spread of malaria and cholera in communities around Lake Victoria. He recently received his Ph.D. in Geography from UC Santa Barbara. His dissertation titled, Modeling Evapotranspiration in sub-Saharan Africa: A Tool for Food Security Analysis synthesized remote sensing and land surface reanalysis to parameterize a low cost and effective evapotranspiration model. He is currently living in Flagstaff, AZ, after being awarded a Mendenhall Research Fellowship through the U.S. Geological Survey. His project there uses a suite of hyper- spatial and spectral remote sensing data, geographic information system (GIS) layers, and groundtruth data to estimate and evaluate water use efficiency for the primary irrigated crops in California (alfalfa, corn, cotton, and rice).
Publications
- A framework to assess national level vulnerability from the perspective of food security: The case of coral reef fisheries.
- Global Phenological Response to Climate in Crop Areas using Vegetation, Humidity, and Temperature over 26 years
- Assessing Future Risks to Agricultural Productivity, Water Resources and Food Security: How Can Remote Sensing Help?
- Using Modeled Soil Loss to Predict Phosphorus Load in Lake Victoria Basin.
- Examining Evapotranspiration Trends in Africa.
- Combining Surface Reanalysis and Remote Sensing Data for Monitoring Evapotranspiration in sub-Saharan Africa.
- A Climate Trend Analysis of Sudan. U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2011-3072
- Testing a high-resolution satellite interpretation technique for crop area monitoring in developing countries.
- Mapping recent decadal climate variations in Eastern Africa and the Sahel, in Remote Sensing of Drought: Innovative Monitoring Approaches.
- Agricultural Drought Monitoring in Kenya Using Evapotranspiration Derived from Remote Sensing and Reanalysis Data, in Remote Sensing of Drought: Innovative Monitoring Approaches
- Vulnerability to epidemic malaria in the highlands of Lake Victoria basin: the role of climate change/variability, hydrology and socio-economic factors.
- A Hybrid High-Medium Resolution Satellite Interpretation Technique for Crop Area Monitoring in Developing Countries.
- Crop Area Estimation using High and Medium Resolution Satellite Imagery in Areas with Complex Topography.
- Climatic, Socio-economic and Health Factors Affecting Human Vulnerability to Cholera in the Lake Victoria Basin, East Africa